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31 Playful Minutes

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We are on our second week of our 31 Playful Minutes journey in P4/5.  It’s certainly a much looked forward to part of the week.  Please ask your children to explain to you why we are doing this each week, and why it is for31 minutes!

We plan to stick with our chosen ‘play’ choices for at least another week before deciding if we’d like to try one of the activities some of the others have been choosing or picking a different interest.

Below are some of the things we’ve enjoyed so far….

Always a hit!  Staff like to join in too!

A lovely, quiet area for building a Minecraft world.

Role play in the grocery shop.  They had some
tricky customers this week!

Crafts….from clay to stuffed pigs and paper bag people!

Following our own topical interests and presenting our findings however we choose.

Farms, trucks and tractors!  We even had a friend stop by who couldn’t resist a play!

We have already seen wonderful examples of sharing and cooperating together during these sessions.  Sometimes compromising can be hard at times but a playful environment is a wonderful way to work through these challenges.

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Friendship

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During Health and Wellbeing lessons, we’ve been thinking about the topic Friendship.   In groups, we talked about what qualities we think are vital, preferable or not necessary in a good friendship.  We had different ideas about this but there were many qualities that we all agreed on.  We decided to turn these words into a display for the hall and a ‘Tom Gates’ style display was chosen to reflect the interests of many members in the class.

We looked at books in the Library and from home and talked about the style of lettering and drawings used by Liz Pichon.  We then created our friendship words and black pen drawings of us with our friends.  This proved an enjoyable activity for many and the end result looks very charming!

We will now move on to think about different aspects of friendships and getting along with others.

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Adding the final ‘doodles’ to our display!